Great until last couple years... - Software Engineer Cengage Employee Review

2.0
Nov 28, 2015
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Pros

There use to be so many pros to working for Cengage Learning but just recently the company has taken a turn for the worse and will probably be a sinking ship due to some decisions that is leaving a bad taste in a lot of peoples mouths

Cons

Recently they have let go many people in our organization and replaced them with one of the largest outsourcing firms "Cognizant" to which some of the employees of many years were "rebadged" as a Cognizant employee or terminated without severance pay. This company use to be a company of value, integrity and loyalty to its customers and its employees however software is rushed out the door with glaring bugs, customers reach out about bugs/security issues and most are swept under the rug while, and people are leaving without being replaced leaving the remaining members of teams left with more work than they can handle yet the same deadlines are expected causing shortcuts and poor software to be developed.

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3.0
Jun 4, 2026
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Pros

Company has some interesting approaches to the market and in the past they seemed value employees. There are some good employees there and there was, in the past, visionary leadership, but the people with the vision and leadership skills left the company a few years ago.

Cons

The company actively de-values employees. They had a project they called "Project Horizon" where they told all employees they needed to cut costs, so the company was going to have multiple layoffs over 3-5 years - but nobody was allowed to know when, where, or why - - just one day large swaths of people would be gone. That hung over everyone's heads - for years, and is indicative of how Cengage values employees - it doesn't. Everything is about trying to secure new funding and prepare for an IPO, so they stopped investing significantly in the products about 3 years ago and that's about when they stopped acting like they cared about employee wellness as well.

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